I'm not seeing this (under Windows) with 6.0.1.
At step 2), I already have evaluated Integrate[Exp[-24x] Cos[25x],x]. I
type Magnification in a new Input cell in that notebook. I select the
output from that Integrate input. I change the magnification setting at
the little drop-down menu in the window's status bar at the bottom. The
ENTIRE notebook's magnification changes.
AES wrote:
> 1) Changing the magnification value in the small drop-down menu at the
> bottom left of a notebook window obviously magnifies the on-screen
> display (but presumably NOT the printed page contents resulting from a
> Print command?)
>
> For example, select all the cells in a NB; set this magnification number
> to, say, 150%; the whole notebook expands as above.
>
> 2) Now, type the word Magnification into a new Input cell, then select
> *anything* else in the NB -- another cell, a word in another cell, all
> the cells in the NB; then again change the magnification value in the
> little bottom drop-down menu:
>
> **Only the word Magnification in that one input cell changes (even
> though it's no longer selected). Nothing else -- including any other
> selection you make -- changes size.**
>
> In fact, you can run the word Magnification way up, or way down, in size
> this way. The value in the little menu and the size of the word
> Magnification in the one NB cell change to various values; the rest of
> notebook doesn't change at all.
>
> At least that's what I'm seeing, right now . . .
>
> 3) OK, now shrink the Magnification word to 50% as above, leaving the
> rest of the NB at, say, 150% (though the little menu says 50%).
>
> Then select all cells; go to the Format >> Magnification menu; and
> select various values, say 100%, then 200%, etc.
>
> **The entire notebook changes to those new sizes -- including the word
> Magnification, which jumps into sync with rest of notebook and follows
> along through all size changes.**
>
> 4) Having done the preceding, leave the display at some new size;
> select all cells; then return to the little drop-down menu at the bottom
> of the NB window and try to further change NB magnification from there,
> as you had done earlier. Result:
>
> **The little magnification menu has now apparently ceased to function AT
> ALL: Neither the entire NB nor the word Magnification any longer change
> size (though the number in the menu field changes value appropriately).**
>
> -----
>
> At this point, I give up . . .
>
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